Question

The phrase 'Survival of the fittest' as a way of describing the mechanism of selection was coined by 

(a) Louis Pasteur 

(b) Charles Babbage

(c) Herbert Spencer 

(d) Marie Curie

Answer 1

(c) Herbert Spencer 

The Principles of Biology by Herbert Spencer (1864) looked at biology in terms of themes, such as Function, Adaptation and Variation. In this book Spencer introduced the expression 'survival of the fittest', in the sense of 'the most appropriate to its environment'.